Todd Barty

Actor/Director/Writer/Educator/
BA. Honours Candidate- researching Magical Realism and Australian Gothic in Theatre

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@VaticanNews Amen. ❤️🙏

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Our 2024 volume, "Eras," is now available for your reading pleasure! Thank you to all of our contributors for trusting us with your brilliant pieces - it's been such a joy to work on this issue. Read the complete volume here: https://t.co/vyzaeaWbhM

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@NonwayneWayne The quest for a replacement continues to this day…

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@j9evans1 Enjoy the journey!

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@j9evans1 Congratulations; it was a pleasure to see your work over the last few months.

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@Tszarcasm is pursuing something vital in examining power structures behind knowledge. I will further investigate visual representation of my research, but have clarified some lines of argument concerning conventions of Magical Realism and Australian Gothic Theatre. (2/)

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I really enjoyed last week’s #BA4102 conference. Many of the presenters were at the end point of their thesis writing, so the way they collated and synthesised their findings was instructive - @MeganQld, @perc_edu, @SaraPot50423445, @RitchieWallace1, @j9evans1. (1/)

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#BA4102 Brown's Steps in Ravenswood - inspiration for my practice-led research.

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@Tszarcasm Thanks, @Tszarcasm, your presentation on the power structures that drive our understanding that f the world was fascinating. Such discourse emboldens my interrogation of narrative in my own work. Thanks for the fabulous picture, by the way!

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@perc_edu @TheresaPetray @MeganQld @SaraPot50423445 Thanks, Percy - your presentation was really fascinating. I would like to hear about the outcomes of the new project.

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The hybridity of narrative modes also reflects a diversity of world views, while revealing the influence of international avant-garde theatre practices on the emergence of a contemporary Australian theatre imbued with a clear social pedagogy. (3/3)

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#BA4102 “As new theoretical perspectives, particularly those grounded in social justice politics, have emerged, a need for methodological innovation has also developed.” (Leavy, 293) This speaks to my research, particularly as writer of a creative thesis... (1/3)

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in Magical Realist and Australian Gothic Theatre, styles that seek to re-examine Australian history by challenging comfortable assumptions and diversifying the range of voices to include those historically repressed and outside our preferred reading of national identity. (2/3)

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#BA4102 “In the late 1970s imaginative oral historians turned these crit- icisms on their head and argued that the so-called unreliability of memory was also its strength...” (Thompson, 2007, 49 - 70) (1/ )

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... words of real individuals are used to process or explore a community’s experience. Different playwrights are take varying approaches regarding manipulation or adherence to sources interviews. These National Theatre videos offer some insight... (3/ )

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“... but also about the relationships between past and present, between memory and personal identity, and between individual and collective memory.” (Thompson, 2007, p39 - 70)
In my discipline, this can be referenced to the development of Verbatim Theatre, where the (2/ )